Salesforce.com not worried?

By Microsoft’s hosted applications moves?

They should be!

If there was a software CEO not directly touched by Microsoft before today, it was Benioff.

Well, not anymore! 

Boy, what a loudmouth he has been!

If you look at the easily-surmountable head start he has in his spaces, hosted CRM and salesforce automation, you sorta realize why he constantly flapped his gums derisively towards Microsoft.

He was afraid!

Truly petrified!

Both of Microsoft's entry into that space, and the fact that he didn't have a compelling development story, the stuff* he's throwing at rhe wall notwithstanding. (*Appexchange, Apex)

And now, the battle begins in earnest.

In Microsoft, Salesforce.com has a deep-pocketed, able, dedicated, and best of all, a ruthless competitor!

With Microsoft not only entering the field but also committed to constantly improving their hosted products, homie is in very deep kimchi.

Attach the fact that the Microsoft platform(s) have a gazillion number of developers crankin’ out stuff for them, I cannot but see Salesforce.com’s market share tank.

Now he has the opportunity to use open source to see if he can pedal fast enough!

Prediction: in the next 24-36 month period, CRM becomes another division of ORCL, just like that other company by yet another ex-Oracle employee, the company formerly known as SEBL.

As they say in the ‘hood: It’s on!

Do you use Salesforce.com products? Will you evaluate Microsoft’s hosted offerings?Tell us here or email me at John.Obeto@absolutevista.com

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